Microsoft Purview Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Purview over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 160 191
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +61
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 17 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.42% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 0.70% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 5
10th Percentile £401 £511 £380
25th Percentile £417 £547 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £645 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% +29.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £489 £714 £538
90th Percentile £589 £748 £609
England median daily rate £517 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -8.50% +2.73% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Microsoft Purview falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,350 1,287 1,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.65% 31.15% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 870 1,314
10th Percentile £300 £288 £263
25th Percentile £380 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £479 £503
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -4.72% +0.55%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £599
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 44 60
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.09 £15.75
25th Percentile £12.82 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.56 £16.06 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year +115.16% -41.28% +21.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £33.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £89.38 £66.23 £57.06
England median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £32.32
% change year-on-year +9.24% -26.36% +50.33%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Microsoft Purview as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Purview in the North of England

Microsoft Purview
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Purview in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Purview in the North of England

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Purview in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Purview in the North of England

Microsoft Purview
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Purview within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +3 14 £460 -23.33% 11
North East - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -16 1 £438 -37.05% 6
Microsoft Purview
England

Microsoft Purview
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (70.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (58.82%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) OneDrive
4 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
5 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.88%) AWS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Security Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Data Loss Prevention
2 8 (47.06%) Data Governance
3 7 (41.18%) Cloud Security
4 6 (35.29%) Mentoring
4 6 (35.29%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
5 5 (29.41%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (29.41%) Zero Trust
6 3 (17.65%) Data Security
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (11.76%) Fintech
7 2 (11.76%) Information Security
7 2 (11.76%) ITIL
7 2 (11.76%) Mobile Application Development
7 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Darktrace
2 2 (11.76%) Zscaler
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.88%) Imperva
3 1 (5.88%) Thycotic